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Font for 1991 Dark Shadows logo?
« on: September 29, 2005, 02:07:02 AM »
Does anyone know what the FONT used for the 1991 series logo/lettering is?  I've found a few that sort of look like it like OLDENG.TTF which is quite close, but none of them are "the one".

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Re: Font for 1991 Dark Shadows logo?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2005, 11:36:36 AM »
Does anyone know what the FONT used for the 1991 series logo/lettering is?  I've found a few that sort of look like it like OLDENG.TTF which is quite close, but none of them are "the one".

I don't know if there is a specific font for the logo. When I was recording episodes onto VHS tapes from Sci-Fi, I scanned the logo from a DS calendar and sized it to fit the VHS label.
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Re: Font for 1991 Dark Shadows logo?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2005, 05:23:25 PM »
It took quite a bit of research but I was able to answer my own question.  :)

It appears that the 1991 DS logo wasn't made from 1 font but from 2 fonts (just like the logo for the original series). The upercase "D" and "S" are the same for both series and come from the "Old English" (True Type) font. The lowercase letters that make up the "ark hadows" part come from the "Agincourt" font. Unfortunately these are commercial fonts which means you have to buy them.  :(

Anyway, I was able to find some sites where you could preview the fonts by typing in some text and seeing how it'd look using that font. I of course typed in "Dark Shadows" then took a snapshot and put this composite image together proving that combining the 2 fonts does in fact give us the cool 1991 logo.  http://www.geocities.com/snycentral/DS91LogoInfo.gif  8)

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Re: Font for 1991 Dark Shadows logo?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2005, 01:25:56 AM »

 I'm glad they went with a more classic-looking font for the '91 series.  I remember they were originally considering using this stylized-looking "modern" font which looked pretty trippy, and not very DSesque IMO.
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